

Tue, Mar 19
|As Above Shop
Spring Equinox Ceremony & Gong Bath with Melody
Time & Location
Mar 19, 2024, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
As Above Shop, 2505 17 Ave SW 217 (Second Floor, Calgary, AB T3E 7V3, Canada
About the event
The Spring Equinox is happening this year on March 19th at 9:06 PM. This is the moment that the Sun moves into ARIES, the first sign of the zodiac and represents The East in the Medicine Wheel. Aries is a Cardinal Fire sign, this is an initiating energy - and combined with the Equinox portal, this is a very powerful time for new beginnings, new inspirations, and for planting seeds of what you want to create for the coming year. It is a time of enjoying and celebrating new life, fertility, and rebirth! Aries represents the Self, the I AM presence, it is passionate, confident, and very much a leader, not a follower! It is bold, dynamic, and full of vitality. As the first of the fire signs, it is all about action, can even a little impulsive, but definitely about making moves and going after what you want! We will harness this energy and plant these seeds deeply into your psyche to cultivate the life you dream of.
DESPACHO CEREMONY DESCRIPTION:
At this time on the Planet it is time to bring the indigenous rituals back into our everyday life. When we do ceremony, we receive great healing and also provide much needed healing to our earth, our mother.
A despacho is a prayer bundle or offering. It is an ancient Andean ceremonial practice of making offerings to the mountains (Apus), Mother Earth (Pachamama), and other spirits of nature in reciprocity, reverence, and thanksgiving. It is an act of love and a reminder of the connections we share with all beings, elements, spirits, and sacred places. For hundreds of years, the Laika (high shamans or wisdom keepers of the Q’ero lineage of Peru) have used the despacho ceremony for a wide variety of occasions – births, deaths, as an expression of gratitude, to heal physical and emotional ailments, to restore balance and harmony, or when there is a specific request of the spirit world. The despacho ceremony takes participants into ritual space and operates at the level of the soul. Similar to a mandala or sacred creation, the despacho holds symbolic elements and the prayers of the participants. As the elements are added to the despacho, the vibration of the participants and the room raises. The despacho becomes a living prayer that brings energy shifts and great healing!
Suggested offerings include chocolate, sugar and sweets for Pachamama and the Deva kingdom (they love jelly beans and all the bright colors), corn and/or other grains, coca leaves (I will provide these), flowers, sacred incenses, paper (or “play”) money if you want to call in abundance, salt, feathers, beans, colorful yarns, and any other item that is significant to the occasion. If someone in your life requires healing, you can bring a picture of them to put into the bundle. Etc.
Bring anything you feel called to include.
ITEMS TO BRING:
- Yoga mat
- Bottle of water
- Offerings for Despacho - chocolate, candies *all kinds, incenses, salt, herbs, crystals, feathers, beans, pictures of loved ones in need of healing/blessing, etc. etc...
SCHEDULE:
- Open sacred space
- Smudge
- Talk about the Equinox portal
- Drum - opening song
- Intention ceremony/meditation
- Ceremoniously create despacho bundle
- Songs/Limpia for everyone
- Gong Journey meditation
- Closing
Tickets
Spring Equinox Ceremony
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